Starts on Thursday 15th Jan 2026 at 6-7.30pm for 10 weeks

Explore how visionaries transformed art and nature into a living Arcadia.

This course investigates how landscape design reflected Enlightenment thought and artistic innovation. Beginning with William Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty and his theory of the serpentine line, we trace how ideas of form, nature, and design intertwined. Case studies include the gardens of Lady Luxborough at Barrells, Princess Augusta at Kew, Henrietta Howard at Marble Hill, and the botanical collaborations of the Duchess of Portland and Mary Delany. The achievements of Lancelot “Capability” Brown, Charles Hamilton at Painshill, the ferme ornée of William Shenstone, and the Rococo visions of Thomas Robins and the astronomer-designer Thomas Wright reveal how the eighteenth-century landscape became both an aesthetic experiment and a reflection of a new, idyllic ideal.

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£250.00

10 WEEK ONLINE COURSE

Our online Zoom course will begin on Thursday 15th January 2026
6 pm-7.30 pm GMT.

All our Zoom courses are recorded and a link will be sent out with notes after each class.

Don’t forget to look out for an announcement soon for our short courses.